Wheelbarrow.



e. A. TYLER.

WHBELBARROW. APPLIGAI'IOII mum my 11, 1912.

1,070,308. Patented Aug. 12, 1913.

GEORGE A. TYLER, OF EL PASO, TEXAS.

WHEELBARROW.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Aug. 12,1913.

Application filed May 17, 1912. Serial No. 697,949.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, GEORGE A. TYLER, a citizen of the United States,residing at El Paso, in the county of El Paso and State of Texas, haveinvented new and useful Improvements in WVheelbarrows, of which thefollowing is a specification.

This invention is an improved self-dump ing wheel barrow especiallyadapted for use for wheeling concrete and also adapted for use forwheeling sand and other material, the object of the invention being toprovide a wheel barrow of improved and novel construction which embodiesa pivotally mounted bottom dumping door, means for securing the door inclosed position and means for releasing said door.

The invention consists in the construction, combination and arrangementof devices, hereinafter described and claimed.

In the accompanying drawing: Figure 1 is a side elevation of aself-dumping wheel barrow constructed in accordance with my invention.Fig. 2 is partly a plan and partly a horizontal sectional view of thesame on the plane indicated by the line Z)b of Fig. 1. Fig. 3 is partlya rear elevation of the same and partly a vertical section on the planeindicated by the line arr-a of Fig. 1.

The frame 1 of my improved wheel barrow is made of a single metal bar ortube and comprises a pair of parallel side arms 2, upwardly andrearwardly inclined handles 3 which are formed with and extendrearwardly from the said side arms, a forwardly extending mediallyarranged substantial U-shaped yoke 1 and transversely arranged alinedconnecting bars or arms 5 which connect the rear ends of the arms of theyoke to the front ends of the side arms 2. The wheel 6 is arrangedmidway between the arms of the yoke and its axle 7 is mounted inbearings 8 secured to the under side of the yoke. The body 9 of thebarrow is preferably made of sheet metal, is rectangular in plan andcomprises a hopper shaped enlarged upper portion 10 and a vertical sidedsmaller lower portion 11, the front and rear side walls 12 of which arefixed. A bottom 13 is arranged centrally and con nects the lower ends ofthe front and rear walls 12. Said Walls are also here shown as connectedtogether by a rod 14: which is arranged under the center of the bottomplate. This body is arranged between the arms 2 of the frame, the lowerportions of the inclined sides of the upper part of the body bearingagainst and being secured to the said arms. The rear Wall 12 is providedat its lower corners with a pair of downwardly extending supporting feetor standards 15 which bear on the ground when the wheel barrow islowered, so that its weight is supported by the Wheel and also by thesaid feet or standards.

The bottom of the body is formed by a pair of doorsor plates 16 whichare pivotally or hingedly connected to the rod 14: and are adapted toclose upwardly and toopen downwardly. On the outer sides of the frontand rear walls 12 are spring catches 1718, respectively, which have camhooks 19 that project through openings in the said walls and engage thebottom doors or plates 15 when the latter are in raised closed positionand, hence, serve to secure the said bot tom doors in such position. Onopposite sides of the frame of the wheel barrow are operating rods 20.The said rods move in suitable guides 21 on the handles 3. Each of thesaid operating rods is pivotally con nected at its front end as at 22 tothe upper end of a pivotally mounted trip rod 23 which is connected toone of the front catches 17 Each operating rod is also connected as at24: to a pivotally mounted link rod 25, the lower end of the said linkrods being pivotally connected to a trip rod 26 which is connected toone of the rear catches 18. Each operating rod has a trip lever orhandle 27.

In order to dump a load from a Wheel barrow, it is only necessary todraw one of the operating rods rearwardly so as to cause it, through theinstrumentality of the trip rods hereinbefore described, to release 'thecatches from one of the bottom doors 16 and thereupon the said bottomdoor by the weight of the load drops downwardly to an inclined positionand coacts with the other door to form a chute to discharge the load bygravity from one side of the wheel barrow, as will be understood.

While I have herein shown and described a preferred form of myinvention, I would have it understood that changes may be made in theform, proportion and construction of the several parts Without departingfrom the spirit of my invention and within the scope of the appendedclaim.

I claim A wheel barrow having a body comprising a hopper shaped upperportion and vertical front and rear walls depending from the front andrear sides of said upper por tion, a medially arranged rod connectingthe lower portions of said front and rear Walls, oppositely inclinedbottom doors hingediy mounted at their lower sides on the said rodbetween said front and rear walls and arranged to be closed upwardlyagainst the sides of the upper portion of the hopper, catches to securethe said bottom doors in raised position, the said catches beingpivotally mounted on the said body, a frame on which the body is securedhaving rearwardly extending handles, guides on the said handles andoperating rods for the catches guided in the said guides.

In testimony whereof I aflix my signature in presence of two Witnesses.

v GEORGE A. TYLER. l/Vitnesses TRACEY REDMoND, JOHN T. FLETCHER.

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